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Eater National has an exclusive excerpt from Garden & Gun's first-ever book, The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life. In it, Southern food expert John T. Edge explains the importance of Southern cuisine today: "Our beloved provincial dishes serve as unifying totems of people and place." [-EN-]